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As a former practitioner who worked to unite disparate silos of clinical data I can certainly get behind a spec that has industry support. The degree of support is yet to be determined but something is better than nothing. As I see it, HL7's FHIR is the only game in town. It's incumbent upon vendors to participate in the spirit of integration and openness. Further, it's incumbent upon Providers to not block innovation within their environments as data protectors, aka gatekeepers, are oft want to do.